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Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography for 1978
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A PRIMARY WORKS
•A78:1Agosta, Lucien L. “‘The Inconvenience of Celebrity’: An Unpublished Letter from Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford.” BSN, 8 (04 1978), 11–13. ¶ Comments by ebb on fame, physicians, Dickens, Carlyle, Harriet Martineau, and Queen Victoria. Introduction and notes.Google Scholar
•A78:2Allen, Frank C., ed. A Critical Edition of Robert Browning's “Bishop Blougram's Apology”. [See A76:1.]Google Scholar
•A78:3Baker, William. “Robert Browning on William Charles Macready.” BSN, 8 (12 1978), 12–18. ¶ Facsimile, introduction, and notes to a holograph ms. revealing rb's strong reaction to the failure of A Blot in the ’Scutcheon, his anger at John Forster, and his sympathy for Macready.Google Scholar
•A78:4Dow, Miroslava Wein. “A Variorum Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese.’” DAI, 38 (1978), 4177A (Maryland). ¶ With a textual and critical introduction.Google Scholar
•A78:5Cora, Kaplan, ed. Aurora Leigh and Other Poems. London: The Women's Press, 1978. 415 pp.Google Scholar
•A78:8Peterson, William S., ed. Sonnets from the Portuguese: A Facsimile Edition of the British Library Manuscript. Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishing, 1977. xx + [90] pp. ¶ Also issued by the Imprint Society (Barre, Mass.) in a boxed set with Casa Guidi Windows (A77:3).Google Scholar
•A78:9Woolford, John, and Karlin, Daniel, eds. “Aeschylus' Soliloquy: Transcript and Notes.” BSN, 8 (04 1978), 8–16. ¶ Facsimile of ms. by rb in the British Library, transcribed and edited.Google Scholar
B REFERENCE AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL WORKS AND EXHIBITIONS
•B78:1 “Collection Additions – 1977.” Armstrong Browning Library Newsletter, No. 18 (Spring 1978), p. 4.Google Scholar
•B78:2 “Collection Additions – 1978.” Armstrong Browning Library Newsletter, No. 19 (Fall 1978), p. 4.Google Scholar
•B78:3Collins, Thomas J. “The Year's Work in Victorian Poetry: Robert Browning.” VP, 16 (Autumn 1978), 227–33. ¶ Survey of recent scholarship.Google Scholar
•B78:4 “Desiderata for Browning Scholarship.” SBHC, 6 (Spring 1978), 79. ¶ Three items.Google Scholar
•B78:6 “Doctoral Dissertations in Progress,” SBHC, 6 (Spring 1978), 78–79. ¶ Three items.Google Scholar
•B78:10Kelley, Philip, and Hudson, Ronald. “The Brownings' Correspondence: Supplement No. 1 to the Checklist.” BIS, 6 (1978), 163–68. ¶ 300 corrections and additions to Part I of the Checklist.Google Scholar
•B78:11Kelley, Philip, and Hudson, Ronald. The Brownings' Correspondence: A Checklist. [See B77:11.]Google Scholar
•B78:12Peterson, William S. “Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography for 1976.” BIS, 6 (1978), 169–85.Google Scholar
•B78:13Peterson, William S. “Some Reflections on Editing the Brownings' Correspondence.” BSN, 8 (08 1978), 17–19. ¶ Needs and difficulties facing editors Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson in carrying out the task proposed by their Checklist.Google Scholar
•B78:14Pettigrew, John. “For ‘Flute’ Read ‘Lute’: or, Notes on the ‘Notes’ on Sordello in the Ohio Edition.” Library, 33 (06 1978), 162–69. ¶ Extensive amplification and correction of the Ohio Edition notes, based upon the author's work on the Penguin Browning.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
•B78:17Taplin, Gardner B. “Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Guide to the Year's Work in Victorian Poetry: 1977.” VP, 16 (Autumn 1978), 224–27. ¶ Evaluates selected studies.Google Scholar
•B78:18Tobias, Richard C., ed. “Victorian Bibliography for 1977.” VS, 21 (Summer 1978), 527–628.Google Scholar
C BIOGRAPHY, CRITICISM, AND MISCELLANEOUS
•C78:1Aiken, Susan Hardy. “Bishop Blougram and Carlyle,” VP, 16 (Winter 1978), 323–40.¶ By alluding ironically to many of Carlyle's works, rb asks us to view the personal dynamics between the Bishop and Gigadibs from a Carlylean perspective.Google Scholar
•C78:2 “The Ring, the Rescue, and the Risorgimento: Reunifying the Brownings' Italy.” BIS, 6 (1978), 1–42. ¶ Challenges the assumption that the Brownings's political views were opposed and adduces, from poems and letters, that the Brownings's political views converged and that ebb's intelligent political views are reflected in a deepening of rb's idea of the hero in history.Google Scholar
•C78:3Astley, Russell. “Browning's Logœdic Measures,” VP, 16 (Winter 1978), 357–68. ¶ By the mixing of poetic measures,” Browning created a new, strictly metered yet non-iambic music for English verse.”Google Scholar
•C78:4Backman, Sven. “Wilfred Owen and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.” Studia Neophilologica, 49, No. 1 (1977), 29–41. ¶ ebb's considerable inflence upon Wilfred Owen, particularly in the latter poet's experiments with approximate rhymes.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
•C78:5Binns, J. W. “Browning, Tully and Ulpian: A Note on ‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church.’” SBHC, 6 (Spring 1978), 66–70. ¶ Rather than using Ulpian as an example of bad Latin, rb alludes to a Renaissance controversy concerning the merits of Tully and Ulpian, two masters of Latin style.Google Scholar
•C78:6 “Browning Society News,” Through Casa Guidi Windows: The Bulletin of the Browning Institute, No. 4 (Winter 1978/1979), p. 3. ¶ Reports from nine societies.Google Scholar
•C78:7Chakraborty, S. C. “Robert Browning the Poet-Autobiographer.” Panjab University Research Bulletin (Arts), 5, No. 2 (1974), 9–50.*Google Scholar
•C78:8Colby, Vineta. “Browning's ‘Saul’: The Exorcism of Romantic Melancholy.” VP, 16 (Spring/Summer 1978), 88–99. ¶ Unlike other major Victorian poets, Browning believed in the inexhaustible wellsprings of creativity in the genuine artist.Google Scholar
•C78:9Cramer, Maurice Browning. “A Voice from the Hutchins College: Pluralistic Interpretations of a Poem by Robert Browning.” Journal of General Education, 30 (Spring 1978), 10–30. ¶ Reprint of “‘A Woman's Last Word’: Paradise Lost or Paradise Regained?” BSN, 6 (07 1976), 3–17. (See C76:31.)Google Scholar
•C78:10Cundiff, Paul A.Robert Browning: A Shelleyan Promethean. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Valkyrie Press, 1977. 238 pp. ¶ rb was not a Christian but a closet Promethean who wrote in code.Google Scholar
•C78:11Dahl, Curtis. “Browning, Architecture, and John Ruskin.” SBHC, 6 (Spring 1978), 32–45. ¶ “rb's poetics are remarkably close to Ruskin's architectonics” (p. 41). rb not only associates moral values with architectural styles but follows Ruskin in the specific values he connects with particular styles.Google Scholar
•C78:12D'Avanzo, Mario. “‘Rather I Prize the Doubt’: Browning's Heroic Rabbi.” SBHC, 6 (Fall 1978), 56–60. ¶ rb chose Ibn Ezra as an ideal for his own times: a model who struggled with doubt and uncertainty, who initiated Higher Criticism, but who affirmed the supremacy of faith and grace.Google Scholar
•C78:13Davies, Cory Bieman. “From Knowledge to Belief in La Saisiaz: The Two Poets of Croisic.” SBHC, 6 (Spring 1978), 7–24. ¶ Argues for the strong influence of two essays by Frederic Harrison, the Positivist, upon this volume of rb's poems.Google Scholar
•C78:14deCourten, Maria Luisa Giartosio. “Un problema geografico in una poesia di Robert Browning.” Lo Strona, 3 (ottobre-dicembre 1978), 5–8. ¶ Argues about biographical data in “By the Fireside.” In Italian.Google Scholar
•C78:15Doane, Margaret. “The Intuitive Realization of Goodness in The Ring and the Book and ‘The Italian in England.’” SBHC, 6 (Fall 1978), 54–56. ¶ In both works, rb shows the transformation to a higher morality inspired by a single look at the face and smile of a pure woman.Google Scholar
•C78:16Drew, Philip. “‘Childe Roland’ and the Urban Wilderness.” BSN, 8 (12 1978), 19–22. ¶ Like Dickens's descriptions of blighted urban/rural slums, rb's poem also may describe a subjective repulsion on the part of the speaker to similar blighted areas which surrounded the great industrial cities of the nineteenth century.Google Scholar
•C78:17Dupras, Joseph A. “Sacramental Language for Love's Warrant in Browning's ‘Saul.’” Journal of Narrative Technique, 8 (Spring 1978), 124–32. ¶ David progressively refines language to signify a “divine-human encounter,” fusing his spiritual and aesthetic faculties.Google Scholar
•C78:19Ganim, Carole. “The Divided Self: Caliban from Shakespeare to Auden.” Kentucky Philological Association Bulletin (1975), pp. 9–15.*Google Scholar
•C78:20Gribben, Alan. “‘A Splendor of Stars & Suns’: Twain as a Reader of Browning's Poems.” BIS, 6 (1978), 87–103. ¶ In the 1880s Clemens gave frequent readings of rb's poems; in the last decade of his life his work shows rb's influence.Google Scholar
•C78:21Grube, John. “Sordello, Browning's Christian Epic.” English Studies in Canada, 4 (Winter 1978), 413–29. ¶ The thrust of this Christian epic is toward peace and social change and represents rb's courageous efforts to create a socially relevant Victorian poem.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
•C78:22Gurney, Stephen Isaac. “Romantic and Victorian: A Comparative Study of Keats and Browning.” DAI, 39 (1979), 3525 A (Maryland). ¶ How the similarity in moral, aesthetic, and metaphysical concerns in Keats's poetry foreshadows some fundamental Victorian concerns.Google Scholar
•C78:23Hair, Donald S. “Browning's Palace of Art,” University of Toronto Quarterly, 48 (Winter 1978/1979), 115–29. ¶ The concept of a palace of art, embodying “the whole round of creation,” is one of rb's continuing concerns and can be found in his poems and in his idea of the poet as mage.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
•C78:24Hair, Donald S. “Exploring Asolando.” BSN, 8 (04 1978), 3–6. ¶ In this unjustly neglected volume, rb seriously “plays with” (his definition of asolare) the distinction between “fact” and “fancy.”Google Scholar
•C78:25 “Happenings in Browning.” Armstrong Browning Newsletter, No. 18 (Spring 1978), p. 3. ¶ Reports from 12 Browning Societies.Google Scholar
•C78:26 “Happenings in Browning.” Armstrong Browning Newsletter, No. 19 (Fall 1978), p. 3. ¶ Reports from three Browning Societies.Google Scholar
•C78:27Harrington, Elaine Ruth. “A Study of the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.” DAI, 38 (1978), 6142A (New York University). ¶ Examines and evaluates the genres and themes of ebb's poetry “as a woman and an artist of her times.”Google Scholar
•C78:28Harrison, James. “Redemptive Evolution in the Poetry of Robert Browning.” Humanities Association Review, 28 (Fall 1977), 314–27. ¶ Although he did not grasp the essentials of Darwinism, “Browning's concept of the relationship between God and the universe actually gives rise to, or finds mythic embodiment in, evolutionary theory” (p. 327).Google Scholar
•C78:29Hawthorne, Mark D. “Browning's Sordello: Structure Through Repetition.” VP, 16 (Autumn 1978), 204–16. “Browning's use of repetition as a formal device reveals his care in unifying the text and helps to explain some of the anomalies that have perplexed critics.”Google Scholar
•C78:30Hayter, Alethea. “‘These Men Over Nice’: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ‘Lord Walter's Wife.’” BSN, 8 (08 1978), 5–7. ¶ Thackeray rejected ebb's poem for Cornhill not only because the moral policy of the periordical prevented him from printing a poem discussing “unlawful passion” but also because the poem is a personal challenge to Thackeray to reevaluate his male-chauvinist position on women's morals.Google Scholar
•C78:31Heydon, Peter N. “Annual Report of the President of the Browning Institute, Inc.” BIS, 6 (1978), 189–95.Google Scholar
•C78:32Hicks, Malcolm. “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ‘Lord Walter's Wife’: Its Family History.” BSN, 8 (12 1978), 7–12. ¶ Publication policies of Cornhill Magazine; rb and ebb's reactions to periodicals publishing reveal how “Lord Walter's Wife” can be made to serve as a focal point for “family and cultural dissentions.”Google Scholar
•C78:34Holloway, Julia Bolton. “Aurora Leigh and Jane Eyre.” Bronte Society Transactions, 17 (1977), 126–32. ¶ ebb's intense interest in Charlotte Brontë's works, particularly Jane Eyre, inspired her own “novel-poem.”CrossRefGoogle Scholar
•C78:35Humphrey, Rita S. “E. F. Bridell's Drawing of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.” SBHC, 6 (Spring 1978), 25–31. ¶ Provenance of a drawing in the Armstrong Browning Library.Google Scholar
•C78:36Jack, Ian. “‘A Notion of the Troubadour's Intent’: Some Reflections on the Words in Sordello.” BIS, 8 (1978), 63–85. ¶ Words in Sordello which “may cause difficulty because they are rare or because Browning uses them in an unusual sense, and … words which serve to suggest something of the literary context of the poem” (p. 63).Google Scholar
•C78:37Joseph, Gerhard. “Victorian Frames: The Windows and Mirrors of Browning, Arnold and Tennyson.” VP, 16 (Spring/Summer 1978), 70–87. ¶” In the dramatic awareness of the poetry, prospects from windows demonstrate Browning's awareness that human contact with external reality is limited to single apertures.…”Google Scholar
•C78:38Kajs, Rebecca A.B. “‘This Voluble Rhetoric’: An Analysis of Guido's Rhetoric in The Ring and the Book” DAI, 39 (1978), 1590A (Texas Women's University). ¶ Although adept in rhetorical ability, Guido's logic is specious. “A rhetorical analysis of his use of logos, pathos, and ethos shows his unequivocal sophistry.”Google Scholar
•C78:39Karlin, Daniel R. “Asolando and the Browning-Barrett Letters.” BSN, 8 (04 1978), 7–8. ¶ Sources in the rb-ebb correspondence for two poems: “Which” and “Speculative.”Google Scholar
•C78:40Kenny, Brendan. “Browning as a Cultural Critic: Red Cotton Night-Cap Country.” BIS, 6 (1978), 137–62. ¶ Worthy of restoration to the canon, this late work presents understanding as a complex and often ambiguous intellectual and moral process.Google Scholar
•C78:41Kirchhoff, Frederick. “Morris' ‘Childe Roland’: The Deformed Not Quite Transformed.” Pre-Raphaelite Review, 1 (11 1977), 95–105. ¶ Considers Morris's review of Men and Women,“The Hollow Land” as his version of “Childe Roland,” and his repudiation of rb's ironic, ambiguous method of presentation.Google Scholar
•C78:42Lohrli, Anne. “Eliza Fox's Brother Franklin.” SBHC, 6 (Fall 1978), 53–54. ¶ Biographical information about Franklin Fox, who had no association with the Brownings.Google Scholar
•C78:43Lohrli, Ann. “Sonnets to Mrs. Browning.” SBHC, 6 (Spring 1976), 71–73. ¶ Three sonnets to ebb by Helen Whitman, an American poet (1803–78), reprinted with introduction.Google Scholar
•C78:44Markus, Julia. “Bishop Blougram and the Literary Men.” VS, 21 (Winter 1978), 171–95. ¶ Poem parallels and parodies the reestablishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England with Cardinal Wiseman at its head.Google Scholar
•C78:45Markus, Julia. “‘Old Pictures in Florence’ Through Casa Guidi Windows.” BIS, 8 (1978), 43–61. ¶ One understands more fully the political opinions in “Old Pictures in Florence” if one considers its complex but direct relationship to Casa Guidi Windows.Google Scholar
•C78:46Martin, Loy D. “Browning: The Activation of Influence.” Victorian Newsletter, No. 53 (Spring 1978), pp. 4–9. ¶ “Browning's ‘activation’ of Shelley, both as text and poetic ideal,” and also “how the Victorian norms of activation differ from those which precede it among Romantic and Augustan poets.”Google Scholar
•C78:48Mermin, Dorothy. “Ironic Translation in Fifine at the Fair.” Victorian Newsletter, No. 54 (Fall 1978), pp. 1–4. ¶ Some ironic connections of words and themes in Fifine to ebb's translations of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. rb's distrust of words and trust in truth and love.Google Scholar
•C78:49Munich, Adrienne. “Emblems of Temporality in Browning's ‘Cleon.’” BIS, 8 (1978), 117–36. ¶ When considered in their literary context, the emblems of floor, flower, and sphere express rb's concerns about artistic and religious immortality.Google Scholar
•C78:50Nabb, Magdalen. “Casa Guidi Restored.” Through Casa Guidi Windows: The Bulletin of the Browning Institute, No. 4 (Winter 1978/1979), pp. 1–2. ¶ Restoration of the friezes in the Brownings's Florence apartment. Illustrated.Google Scholar
•C78:51Nestor, Maurice. “Browning's Barbarousness.” The Critical Review, 19 (1977), 42–53. ¶ What makes rb's poetry barbarous is his limited trust in his art and his limited sense of reality.Google Scholar
•C78:52Neufeld, James E. “Some Notes on Browning's Musical Poems.” SBHC, 6 (Spring 1978), 46–56. ¶ “An explanation of the major musical references in Browning's poetry with the hope of making his technical knowledge clear to the layman” (p. 47).Google Scholar
•C78:53Peterson, Linda Haenlein. “Biblical Typology and the Poetry of Robert Browning.” DAI, 39 (1979), 6147 A (Brown). ¶ Browning applies the typological method of scriptural interpretation to his own poetic situation: to autobiography, to history, and to poetic structure.Google Scholar
•C78:54Peterson, William S., ed. Browning Institute Studies. Vol. 5. New York: Browning Institute, 1977. ix + 225 pp. ¶ Articles are listed separately in 1977 bibliography.Google Scholar
•C78:55Qualls, Barry V. “W. H. Mallock's Every Man His Own Poet.” VP, 16 (Spring/Summer 1978), 176–87. ¶ Republication of Mallock's satire contains a recipe for making “an imitation of Mr. Browning” (p. 184).Google Scholar
•C78:56Raymond, M[eredith]. “Elizabeth Barrett's Early Poems: The 1820s. ‘The Bird Peeks through the Shell.’” BSN, 8 (12 1978), 3–7. ¶ Essentially, the evolution of ebb's poetics during the 1820s is an expansion of her statement in the Preface of ‘The Battle of Marathon,’ namely, that the function of poetry is to elevate the mind and awaken virtue.”Google Scholar
•C78:57Reed, Kelly Scott. “A Booth at the Fair: The Importance of Music in the Life and Works of Robert Browning.” DAI, 39 (1979), 4283 A (Pennsylvania). ¶ “The great focal point in nearly all the music poems is Browning's belief in the catalytic powers of art to touch man's deepest being, and, in so doing, to lead him toward new ways of seeing.”Google Scholar
•C78:58Richardson, Malcolm. “Robert Browning's Taste in Music.” BIS, 8 (1978), 105–16. ¶ “Browning, living in the great age of musical Romanticism, was someting of a musical reactionary who looked with disdain on the great composers of his era …, preferring instead the forms and performing techniques of the preceding century” (p. 105).Google Scholar
•C78:60Roberts, Ruth. “Pippa, a One-Girl Chorus.” SBHC, 6 (Fall 1978), 39–44. ¶ Pippa functions in a manner similar to that of the chorus in Greek tragic drama.Google Scholar
•C78:61Rumens, Carol. “To Elizabeth Barrett Browning: on the Reprinting of ‘Aurora Leigh’.” New Statesman, 96 (25 08 1978), 251. ¶ Verse.Google Scholar
•C78:63Savory, Jerold J. “Robert Browning in Punch's ‘Fancy Portraits.’” SBHC, 6 (Fall 1978), 53–53. ¶ A cartoon and a parody of rb in Punch, 22 July 1882.Google Scholar
•C78:64Schneider, Mary W. “Browning's Grammarian.” SBHC, 6 (Spring 1978), 57–65. ¶ “A Grammarian's Funeral,” a “eulogy on a literary patriarch” (p. 60), celebrates rb's literary heritage.Google Scholar
•C78:65Shaw, W. David. “Browning's ‘Intimations’ Ode: The ‘Prologue’ to Asolando.” BSN, 6 (Spring 1978), 9–10. ¶ By interpreting the “Prologue” to Asolando as his last retrospect, “it becomes possible to place Browning's poetic growth, as he himself comes to see it, within the larger context of nineteenth-century tradition.”Google Scholar
•C78:66Shen, Yao. “Robert Browning and a Letter of John Keats.” SBHC, 6 (Fall 1978), 32–38. ¶ “Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha,” “Memorabilia,” and “Popularity” owe some of their imagery to a letter by Keats to his brother George on 15(?) Oct. 1818.Google Scholar
•C78:67Solimine, Joseph Jr. “A Note on Browning's ‘An Epistle from Karshish.’” SBHC, 6 (Spring 1978), 73–75. ¶ rb grasped the essence of the great scientific investigators.Google Scholar
•C78:68Solimine, Joseph Jr. “A Note on ‘Johannes Agricola in Meditation.’” SBHC, 6 (Spring 1978), 75–77. ¶ What is particularly disturbing about Agricola is his inaccessibility to change and growth.Google Scholar
•C78:69Spence, G. W. “Browning's Cleon and St. Paul.” SBHC, 6 (Fall 1978), 25–31. ¶ The epigraph to the poem is ironic. “If Browning has shown … that the secular and rationalistic tradition in Greek culture leads to despair, he has also suggested that a thinker in that tradition is unlikely to be able to abandon its principles for an … intuitional religion” (p. 31).Google Scholar
•C78:70Suh, Ji-moon. “The Art of Life: A Study of the Concepts of the Training of the Moral Character in Browning, Mill and Ruskin.” DAI, 39 (1979), 4289A (State Univ. of New York at Albany). ¶ rb's poems demonstrate the beauty of goodness, the ugliness of evil, and the importance of the intellect but with the help of spiritual values.Google Scholar
•C78:71Thomas, Charles Flint. “The Painting of St. Laurence in ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’: Its Source at Prato.” SBHC, 6 (Fall 1978), 45–51. ¶ rb was probably remembering a Balassi-Dolci painting in Prato when he described the pictorial realism of Lippi.Google Scholar
•C78:72Thomson, Fred C. “All and Light: A Note on the Vocabularies of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Matthew Arnold.” BSN, 8 (08 1978), 2–5. ¶ Arnold uses these two words unconventionally to achieve a bleaker, sadder, less assured view of the world, while ebb uses them conventionally and thus conveys an uplifting and basically secure outlook.Google Scholar
•C78:73Tillotson, Geoffrey. A View of Victorian Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. 396 pp. ¶ Kathleen Tillotson edited, revised, and abridged and unpublished ms. intended for the Oxford History of English Literature, published now for the first time. Chap. 9 (pp. 328–82) characterizes and assesses rb's contribution in terms of his times. References to ebb and Pen Browning.Google Scholar
•C78:74Tucker, Herbert Frederick Jr. “Time's Revenges in Browning.” DAI, 38 (1978), 4187A (Yale). ¶ rb avoids closure to leave room for continuity in time.Google Scholar
•C78:75Turner, Paul. “The Patient Truth-Extracting Process.” BSN, 8 (04 1978), 14–15. ¶ The biographical significance of the important, brilliant, and subtle lawyers' monologues in The Ring and the Book.Google Scholar
•C78:76Turner, Willard C. “The Poet Robert Browning and His Kinfolk by His Cousin Cyrus Mason: A Critical Edition.” DAI, 39 (1978), 300A (Tulane). ¶ Mason's biography of rb, while biased and geneologically doubtful, is “valuable in affording its readers intimate glances in the London Brownings' households.”Google Scholar
•C78:77Walker, Gail B. “Character-Types in the Poetry of Robert Browning.” DAI, 39 (1978), 3607A (Georgia). ¶ Certain philosophic concerns recur in rb's poetry and are often embodied in character-types with similar conflicts and motivations.Google Scholar
•C78:78Wolfe, Thomas P. “Browning's Comic Magician: Caliban's Psychology and the Reader's.” SBHC, 6 (Fall 1978), 7–24. ¶ A detailed rhetorical and psychological analysis of “Caliban Upon Setebos:” a general psychological argument about the implicitly comic nature of the dramatic monologue form.Google Scholar
•C78:79Woolford, John. “ebb: The Natural and the Spiritual.” BSN, 8 (04 1978), 15–19. ¶ ebb's aesthetic reveals a typical progression from Romantic to Victorian in a conflict between her growing concerns for “outward things” and her increasing commitment to an “exalted heterocosm” of only Self and God.Google Scholar